If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
From Anita Roddick
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.
I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.
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